Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvar

Who was Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvar?

Johann August Georg Edmund Mojsisovics von Mojsvar was an Austro-Hungarian geologist and palaeontologist.

Mojsisovics was the son of the surgeon Georg Mojsisovics von Mojsvar. He was born at Vienna. He studied law in Vienna University, taking his doctor's degree in 1864, and in 1867 he entered the Geological Institute, becoming chief geologist in 1870 and vice-director in 1892. He retired in 1900, and died at Mallnitz on October 2, 1907.

Mojsvar paid special attention to the Cephalopoda of the Austrian Triassic, and his publications include Das Gebirge urn Hallstatt; Die Dolomitrisse von Südtirol und Venetien; Grundlinien der Geologie von Bosnien-Herzegowina with E. Tietze and A. Bittner; Die Cephalopoden der mediterranen Triasprovinz; Die cephalopoden der Hallsttter Kalke and Beiträge zur Kenntniss der obertriadischen Cephalopodenfaunen des Himalaya. With Melchior Neumayr he conducted the Beiträge zur Paläontologie und Geologie Österreich-Ungarns. In 1862, with Paul Grohmann and Dr. Guido von Sommaruga, he founded the Österreichischer Alpenverein, and he also took part in establishing the German Alpine Club, which combined with the former in 1873.